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Talents
Talents: And sure th' Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd.
Talk
Talk: For I no sooner in my heart divin'd, My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.
Tea
Tea: If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
Tears
Tears: And friends, dear friends,-when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most…
Temperance
Temperance: Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair.
Temper
Temper: But certain winds will make men's temper bad. น.
Temptation
Temptation: O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made…
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day: Could'st thou boast, O child of weakness! O'er the sons of wrong and strife, Were their strong temptations planted In thy…
Thankfulness
Thankfulness: Some hae meat and canna eat, And some would eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.
Thieving
Thieving: No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. C.
Thought
Thought: He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Thunder
Thunder: Far along, From peak to peak the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.
Tides
Tides: The thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast…
Time
Time: Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight! Make me a child again, just for to-night!
Toasts
Toasts: My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea: But, before I go, Tom Moore, Here's a double health to thee!
To-Day
To-Day: Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize A cup to the dead already, - Hurrah for the next that dies.
To-Morrow
To-Morrow: Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.
Tongues
Tongues: The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
Travelling
Travelling: The travelled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
Treason
Treason: I spake of most disastr'us chances, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance…
Trees And Plants-Acacia
Trees And Plants-Acacia: Bk. VI. The lawn, Which, after sweeping broadly round the house, Went trickling through the shrubberies in a…
Trees And Plants-Ash
Trees And Plants-Ash: Ash. Fraxinus. The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow…
Trees And Plants-Chestnut
Trees And Plants-Chestnut: Birch. Betula. Rippling through thy branches goes the sunshine, Among thy leaves that palpitate forever, And in…
Trees And Plants-Linden
Trees And Plants-Linden: Linden. Tilia. The linden in the fervors of July Hums with a louder concert.
Trees And Plants-Oak
Trees And Plants-Oak: Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering…
Trees And Plants-Palm
Trees And Plants-Palm: Olive. Olea Europxa. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her…
Trees And Plants-Pine
Trees And Plants-Pine: Monterey. Poplar. Populus Fastigiata. Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and…
Trees And Plants-Yew
Trees And Plants-Yew: The tulip-tree, high up, Opened, in airs of June, her multitude Of golden chalices to humming birds And silken-winged…
Trials
Trials: Pray, pray, thou who also weepest, - And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep-and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count…
Trust
Trust: There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore.
Trifles
Trifles: Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Truth
Truth: Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Twilight
Twilight: The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche, Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim, As if the very Day…
Tyranny
Tyranny: The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.
Thirst
Thirst: Est in aquâ dulci non invidiosa voluptas. There is no small pleasure in pure water.
Traveling
Traveling: Utendum est ætate; cito pede labitur ætas. We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.
Trouble
Trouble: Hoc scito nimio celerius Venire quod molestum est, quam id quod cupide petas. Know this, that troubles come swifter than the…
Tardiness
Tardiness: Spät kommt ihr-doch ihr kommt! You come late, yet you come! (Better late than never.)
Taste
Taste: Racine passera comme le café. Racine will pass away as the taste for coffee. Attributed to MME. DE SÉVIGNÉ.
Theology
Theology: Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie. Theology is Anthropology.
Trade
Trade: Une nation boutiquière. A nation [England] of shopkeepers.
Traveli Ing
Traveli Ing: Zählt der Pilger Meilen, Wenn er zum fernen Gnadenbilde wallt? Does the pilgrim count the miles When he travels to some…
Thal
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Tait, John
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Terence, Publius Terentius Afer
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Tertullian, Quintus Septimius Flo
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Thackeray, William Makepeace
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Tome Burguillos, See Vega
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